Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OTHERS POINTS relevant to the legal side of reform are not so definite as the ones listed above seem...
...McCarthy's wit," Sheed writes. But for a presidential candidate, the McCarthy humor was a handicap, Sheed says, since it made him sound like "a 13th century eccentric, a man of crazed frivolity." Too often, his bookish metaphors made "a man of rather direct and earthy intellect seem vague and woolly." He appeared to be "a lofty bumbler, sacrificing precision for the sake of a cute reference...
Even though some of his crusades seem outrageous, Newhall is no Don Quixote. When he and Publisher Charles Thieriot took over the Chronicle in 1952, the paper was sobersided and international-minded. Circulation was 155,000, behind two mediocre competitors, and profit-and-loss figures showed only losses. Newhall de-emphasized foreign affairs and accentuated a breezy-and sometimes banal-mixture of splashy local stories and columnists, including San Franciscophile Herb Caen and Art Hoppe, the West Coast's answer to Art Buchwald. One of the paper's series, probing the police department, went...
...Hellenic culture, switched from dresses to togas and from shoes to scandals. In Amer ica, the bourgeois dismissed her as a wan ton. It was in Europe that she won her recognition - and lost her life when her trailing scarf wound around a racing-car wheel. Her last words seem written in art-nouveau script: "Adieu, mes amis, je vais à la gloire...
There could be no better choice. Tevye is the very image of an impoverished Jewish father who makes his ragged clothes seem every bit as fair as Joseph's coat. After turning Before Winter Comes into a movie, Topol should find Fiddler a vacation...